1.   Many Jews fled to America to escape persecution in Europe.

2.   Many people who came to the colonies were escaping religious persecution.

3.   Before World War II, Wolf, who is Jewish, and his family fled to Moscow to escape Nazi persecution.

4.   After all, this was America, already home to generations of European refugees escaping religious persecution, famine, disease and poverty.

5.   Exile is of course a path taken by generations of independent artists determined to escape persecution and preserve their creative freedom.

6.   Favorite targets are asylum-seekers, many of whom come to Western Europe to escape persecution.

7.   Giving his true name, he claimed he had just escaped persecution in his homeland.

8.   He came to Afghanistan to escape religious persecution at home.

9.   Her family, Jews from Moscow, wanted to escape religious persecution.

10.   In the fourth century, monks began moving here from Mediterranean regions to escape persecution by the authorities.